Re: Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Musical Predictions

[icemanle@xxxxxxx]

 I guess you could apply 80/20 to a lot of things. In business, this has meant that 80% of your income usually comes from 20% of your customers, so you should focus on these 20% (and "fire" the others).


Could a corollary to the 80/20 rule be that 20% of harp players come up with 80% of the best riffs?  Or best songs? Or best CDs? 

 

 


 

 

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From: Marc Spilka <marc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Musical Predictions


 
> From: icemanle@xxxxxxx <icemanle@xxxxxxx> 
> Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Musical Predictions 
> To: reedwrecker@xxxxxxxxx, harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx 
> Date: Wednesday, 27 January, 2010, 12:45 
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Could a corollary to the 80/20 rule be that 20% of harp players come up with 80% of the best riffs?  Or best songs? Or best CDs? 
 
I didn't notice any reviews of this--last weekend I was at the Norton Buffalo tribute concert in Oakland.  Harp content--Charlie Musselwhite sat in with Bonnie Raitt, Doobie Bros, and Steve Miller. He sounded great of course, but certainly a different sound than Buffalo had when he played with these guys. Steve Miller did a good job playing his old harp part on Living in the USA.  I'm not a huge Doobies fan but thought they stole the show. 
 
Marc Spilka 
Los Gatos, CA 
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> I teach an understanding of music based on a formula I came up with - > 80/20 
> (not based on scientific evidence - just intuition. Nice to note that this 
> article reaffirms what I've found to be true). 
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> 80% of the time, if the audience is able to "predict" what comes next, > they 
> become comfortable with the music. However, if you don't surprise them 20% > of 
> the time, they will lose interest, as it becomes "too familiar". If you > surprise 
> them more than, say 20%, they become uncomfortable in their failure to be > able 
> to predict, and you may lose them this way. 
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> From: Tom Albanese <reedwrecker@xxxxxxxxx> 
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> Sent: Tue, Jan 26, 2010 10:03 pm 
> Subject: [Harp-L] Musical Predictions 
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> I thought this was an interesting explaination for what makes music 
> meaningful and satisfying to the human brain... 
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> http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2010/01/musical_predictions.php 
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> Harp content: Try not to be too predictable in your playing. 
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